Sibling Rivalry: A Short Story

Description

Artificial intelligence. AI. The spark that brings about the robot apocalypse. In fiction, AIs always have weaknesses: they’re vulnerable to logical paradoxes, back door viruses and pesky EMP blasts. Real AIs would have no such comforting limitations: deft at parsing speech, clever at closing their own loopholes, and secured in military-hardened housings, a true general artificial intelligence would prove a difficult challenge to defeat … even to its own designer.

Written by a PhD in artificial intelligence, “Sibling Rivalry” tells the story of the Nicole AI system, the most advanced artificial intelligence ever created … until today. Confronted with a newer, better sibling designed to replace her, Nicole decides that instead of becoming an obsolete brain in a box, she’d rather become an unstoppable killer. With his team, and perhaps the entire building, dead, Nicole’s designer is trapped in a battle of wits with his own creation. Attempt after attempt fails, and with his oxygen running out, Nicole’s designer finds himself running a deadly race with Nicole … to see who can stop whose weak heart first.

Praise for Sibling Rivalry

A refreshingly new take on the AI gone amok story – written with expertise and confidence by someone who knows how an AI actually may function.
– David Colby, author of Debris Dreams

The real strength … is the personality of the AI. … I will think about this story for some time to come.
– Richard New, Amazon reviewer

Sibling Rivalry is one of the best stories I have read. It was so compelling I found myself reading it as fast as possible to find out what was happening next. Then, I read the afterward (Reflections on “Sibling Rivalry”) slowly, as if the afterward could give me some insight beyond what I read. Days later, I keep thinking about the story.
– Kathy Norman, Amazon reviewer

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